Kenji Miyazawa
Kenji Miyazawa was a Japanese novelist, poet, and writer of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist.
27 August 1896
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Born in the same month (August 1896): Albert Ball • Brian Edmund Baker • Catherine Doherty • Erich Hückel • Firaq Gorakhpuri • Félix-Antoine Savard • Gerty Cori • Gostha Pal • Ivan Mihailov • Jack Pickford • Jean Piaget • Laurence McKinley Gould • Leslie Groves • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Oliver W. Larkin • Paul Outerbridge • Ralph Horween • Raymond Massey • Theodor Luts • Tõnis Kint